4chan is crashing the George Zimmerman trial

The trial of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of murdering teenager Trayvon Martin in February 2012, was interrupted Wednesday by the merry pranksters of 4chan's random imageboard /b/ and political board /pol/.

During a Skype video interview of a witness, 4chan users under the names Salman Talpur and Marcus placed a series of calls to the number.

The interrupted witness was Gordon Scott Pleasants, a professor at Florida's Seminole State College who was in Colorado during the hearing. Pleasants, who spoke for the defense, taught at the school Zimmerman once attended. Following the interruption, the court decided to have Pleasants testify over the phone instead of video.

Here's video:

This disruption was allegedly caused by users who tracked down the Skype number online.

About a month ago, a group of 4chan trolls raided a contest Jackson organized to raise money for the Alzheimer's Association. Jackson promised to read the most popular comment in a video. Thanks to 4chan, some of the most popular comments were the infamous Navy Seal copypasta, a three-year-old "facetious message containing a series of ridiculous claims and grandiose threats that portray the poster as an Internet tough guy stereotype," Know Your Meme reported. Thankfully, Jackson did not end up reading the copypasta in his message.

There was a lot of interference on skype , a lot of strange noises that caused laughter in court. #Zimmermanon9

The shooting of Martin has been a hotbed of discussion on social media for the past 14 months.

On the night of Feb. 26, 2012, Zimmerman was out running an errand in the gated Sanford, Florida, community when he spotted Martin on the street looking "suspicious." Zimmerman claims that Martin attacked him, which resulted in Zimmerman shooting the teenager in self-defense. Martin was unarmed at the time.